Sentences with phrase «not ethnocentric»

If she had gone on that trail, all you could be doing is to challenge her on the basis of legal and judicial arguments and not the ethnocentric... it is because she threw the thing in that realm that is why she got it wrong,» charged Mr. Baako stated.

-- which invites answers measuring how well non-western countries fare in relation to a presumed model of western secularism — I start from liberal democratic ideals and assume that they are not ethnocentric: human rights, freedom, equality and democracy are universal aspirations.

Not exact matches

We are not looking for an ethnocentric curriculum.

This self - knowledge issues largely negative imperatives: Don't be naïve, don't stereotype, don't be ethnocentric, don't be a cultural imperialist.

I think Muslim's, as a whole, are extremely ethnocentric (more so than most cultures), uneducated (not their fault due to the fact their religion is dominated by morons), and are the most whiny and vengeful (they hold grudges forever) group of people I've ever met.

It seems a shame that de Lubac was not among the Catholic authorities she consulted, for he might have mitigated her outrage at ethnocentric Christianity.

At any rate, don't you think it's time your ethnocentric publication recognized the fact that professional football is not limited to the NFL - AFL, and that the Green Bay Packers are not the «world champions,» but only American champions?

A similar irony, I think, struck Derrida (though I'm not a fan, generally) when he said that the very idea of ethnocentrism was ethnocentric!

While I may not be a fan of the NPP, I know their presidential candidate is not tribalistic or ethnocentric.

Call me ethnocentric, but I was born in the Northern Territories of the British Protectorate of the Gold Coast Colony and only joined Ghana after the plebiscite in 1956; therefore I am very sensitive to other citizens not respecting our customs and traditions as well, including the President as first citizen for the meantime.

Mr. Quaitoo, who is also the Member of Parliament for Akim Oda, faced the scorn of the public, the National Democratic Congress Minority, and some civil society groups, for making ethnocentric comments, after saying northern farmers could not be trusted in their assessment of the damage from the army worm.

First, I noticed you nobly emphasized the need to reach out to the opposition (and I understand the urgency of that given the volatile polarization of the country), but (as paradoxical as this may seem), please extend your reach to the global sphere as well by prioritizing the poor and the vulnerable not only at home, but everywhere USA leadership has (historically and continuously) contributed to the impoverishment and oppression of ordinary people — let this be driven by an idea of justice based on complicity in harm, not on ethnocentric and depoliticized charity.

It is not necessarily ethnocentric to prefer most features of North American life to analogous customs and practices in other cultures; rather, it is ethnocentric to judge them better simply because they are our ways.

To put it more plainly, I can't help suspect that there is an element of ethnocentric exceptionalism lurking in these protestations that thus - and - such - a-country will gladly pollute their own territory into unlivability when we virtuous white westerners [supposedly] won't.

But what is the Latin for the ethnocentric belief in an anthropomorphic 3in1 god with 1, not 0 or 2 or, more messiahs?

Ayn Randies are too self - centered, selfish, and ethnocentric to give a damn about the Inuits, so it's not surprising the Randies don't care if the loss of Arctic sea ice destroys the Inuit culture.

Some of the voices are dangerous and I promise you, anything that is anti-USA or anti-Israel, anti-semitic, ethnocentric, racist, bullying, etc I am very much against; Still, I am not willing to trade my freedom for security.

Ethnocentric is a sophisticated word for applying a western yardstick for all other cultures: What is considered an ideal of morality in the West is not necessarily an ideal to e.g. African Bushmen.

The strange situation procedure is not appropriate for assessing children from non-US or UK populations as it is based on Western childrearing ideals (i.e. ethnocentric).